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A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
Sh
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Today'. High 52 to 60 Monday—Cloudy, Cooler
50TH YEAR - NO. 25 - 84 PAGES
•jrrcc:?!- wilkes-barre, pa., sunday, april is, 1956
CNITEn PRESS
price 15 CENTS
TORNADOES THREATEN 4 STATES
GOP Near PanicmMi Over Probable ||s Stolen Farm Bill Veto
Farm Belt Congressmen Fear i Reverses Down to l^ocal Level; Benson Will Stay if Ike Signs
At Wedding
McCloskeys Lose Valuable Gems In Monaco Hotel; Party Goes On
MONTE CARLO (ID —
I AUGUSTA, Ga. (IP)—Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson said yesterday after a talk with President Eisenhower that he considers the farm bill "unac-
;;'?SK'b2c<;mlir£ "t" ""¦"" •" •"-"»¦ Biv!e\. .hi.v« ,t„i. m.
Benson would not con-! firm a, United Press dis-i patcli earlier saying it had been' karned Mr. Eiseniiower plans to veto the bill. He said lie thought the President was "making his derision" yesterday afternoon.
jarm belt Republicans dis-, played an almost panicl<y alarm; over the political repercussions' ot President Eisenhower's ex¬ pected veto. I
There was even tall< in some:
Texas Friends Boom Johnson
000 worth of jewelry yeS' terday from the hotel room of Philadelphia publisher Matthew McClo.skey, who came here to be a guest at Grace Kelly's wedding to Prince Rai niei.
Jhe theft was only one of the troubles to lieset Prince Rainier with his April 18-19 weddingi only a few days away. Rain has; fallen every day since Missi Kelly arrived Thursday and thei
mn ni.3rtprs that Mr Fi«Pn ' Prince's latest brush with pho-!
h.XrSt jeopardize hi.rown AUSTIN. Tex..(m-Supporterstographers led Miss Kelly's Aances of reelection bv reiect-:"' ^^"^^^ majority leader Lyn-ther to remark smilmgly. "I *mf the measure ^ ^ don Johnson launched a move-Ruess the Prince is going toi
This reaction appeared to be'J"«"J y^'^'-day booming himjhave to leam to roll with thej
a minority view at this time, i f*"" *'^^.democratic presidential i punches
hrf thfTP wds near unanimitv;"°'"ination. |Taken at Night •» I
anongTarrstarReprSi, ''No Texan in the history ofL. McCloskey who publishes the
ani among the party profes-"'* "ateJias ever had a better
si, ,ais that a veto would hurt ?PP°'^"'?','y «' being nominated
them in House and Senate races^^"'^ Pres'oent on the Democratic
Battle Shapes Up With Gov. Shivers
^AUSTIN, Tex. an—Supporters'pgraphers led Miss Kelly's' fa
in the IS.'iC elections.
ticket than Senator Johnson."
Philadelphia Daily News and is treasurer of the National Demo¬ cratic Committee, disclosed the theft of the 'jewels which his wife had left in a red velvet case in a wardrobe of their
II. N. Envoy Inspects Gaza Strip
New Disorders In Mid-East As Hammarskjold Tries for Peace
.Sen. Miiton R. Young fR-ND), I'^^y°.'" Torn Miller of Austin loii-j a critic of administration:*J'° '" « speech acceptmg co-, „ » , . „ .
farm policy told a reporter that '^^""''"^"^^'•P "' *he "Johnson: room at the Hotel de Pans, a veto "would have far-reach-"'"" President Committee." i Immediately after discover-
in? political as well as economic', Millers statement came asjing the theft, the McCloskeys eo'i.sequences." Johnson and Gov. Allan Shivers sent their other valuables to the
A veto would certainly i ke ""^^died battle lines for a win- hotel safe. It lough on all Republicans in "er-'ake-all figiit to control The United Press leamed de- the farm areas in state and con-^^^^^s' 56 votes at the Demo- tails of the theft shortly before gressional races." jcratic national convention. jofficials ordered a security
1 one Conference ' ¦^°hnson, bidding for the blackout on information about
D *,,-,. . jfavorite son nomination byiit.
Benson, Mr. Eisenhower. Ag- Texas Democrats, also seeks tol The McCloskeys. who did not
riculture Department and Whitehead the national convention I miss the jewels until yesterdav
k ?»v ^'^''* *^o"'^rr'^, f°f delegation, a post also sought byimorning, disclosed that another
about three hours on the farm shivers. lease which contained even more
bill yesterday. Benson .saw the
FEELING BETTER NOW-'
John Sin¬ 's a r z of
632 North Main St., city, mops his brow with the sweep of a contented man after settling his income tax yesterday afternoon with Miss Dorothy M. Eckenrode, cashier at the Internal Revenue office In Wilkes-.Barre Post Office Build¬ ing. Tomorrow midnight is the deadline for squaring accounts with Uncle Sam—(Photo by Bieley).
Stevenson, Kefauver Join To Rap Foreign Policy
JERUSALExM. Israeli Sector (IP) -
tary-General Dag Ham¬ marskjold paid a surprise i visit to the tense Gaza Strip yesterday.
The U.N.'s peace envoy ar rived on the scene of recent Egyptian-Israeli, clashes as Is-, rael reported new incidents in the embattled frontier area be-' tween Egypt and Israel.
An Israeli military spokesman said five Israeli soldiers were wounded when their patrol car was blown up by a mine near the Gaza Strip yesterday mom ing. Egyptian and Israeli force- fought a one-hour gun-battle yesterday aftemoon in the Erez area, north of the strip, he said.
Col. Nehemia Brosh, senior, Israeli military spokesman, charged the Egyptians opened fire on the Israelis. He said there were no casualties on the Israeli side in the skirmish. I Ambush Near Border
Brosh also reported that an Israeli shepherd was wounded in an ambush near Beit Gubrin one mile west of the Jordan border. He said an Israeli police car also was fired on from am¬ bush near Meron in upper Gali¬ lee near the border with Leb¬ anon.
Hammarskjold made a brief j stopover in Gaza, en route
r
Twisters Seen Hovering Over Wide Territory
Storm Belt Extends Across Oklahoma, Louisianna, Texas And Arkansas, Bureau Says
By UNFTED PRESS
Tornadoes howled over two areas of Eastern Okla¬ homa last night and twister warnings were flashed along a storm belt that extended through Louisiana,
TT M o'orr"'!Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. L.iN. becre-i ^ ^^^ ^ g y^^^^^^^^c Bu¬
reau at Oklahoma City
north from Cairo to seek Is¬ rael's acceptance of an eight- point plan to eliminate the threat of full-scale war in the 'Middle East. The plan already
John ^atts, a retormatory parolee, U shown at Williams¬ port, Pa., after he was ar¬ rested for the $66,000 holdup of the Wllliam.^p:.rt National Bank. Police said Watts had about $63,000 in cash when he was apprehended in a freight car.
r«..in» . .1 < Miller refused to follow Shiv-valuable jewelry was left un MJ^th^eslZlted^XltotZr^ i" 19S2 when the governor!touched. ( MIAMI, Fla. aB-Adlai Stevenson and Sen. Estes, . .
-- «4i4«w^ trvLT^n'JZJjJ^fJn T;'h.?^. f™T'J™^'?L?.w* Kefauver took is.sue with President Eisenhower's for-^« ''«'''' ^l^.^f}^<^ bv Egypt.
e„. ^„i .._ ., servative uemocrats into the Oefore trvine to recover the jew-_¦_ .. i i • ui. ¦ ii. • • j. t-i, • , , Hammarskiold refused toi
J.TZL PHH!„""''h» «' ¦'¦¦ R'-Publican camp in support of,els before calling in police yes- eign policy last night in their campaign for Florida's comment on his talks in Cairo' K,H T.Z'i'^^ night Benson president Eisenhower.. ' (Continued on Page TSec. 1) |8Upport for the Democratic nomination.
Ma restated his opposition to "¦''..... — ...
€mlidi^1^yl'1heboy^^^^^ ^f"'^'!^'*'./"^'who oppose the stamp plan tion for settling differences at Bikini
^. Oavid, to give the t>oy a audnor general in the April 24 l-^^.w c,i.^ tu,, KhL .„•,„¦.. nmnn* mpmhpr tmtions " I Strauss
the farm bill, an4 pointed out, that the President knows his views.
Benson said later that if the President did sign the bill his departnient would do the best to administer it as long as the! President desired. Then hei a«l<ed if that meant he. person¬ ally, would st.iy on as secre¬ tary despite his opposition to the fixed-price legislation. Not a Sulker
"I am not in the habit of go
Sales Tax Siamp Plan Said io Block Repeal
HARRISBURG HPI-
Speaking in Miami, Ke-j> fauver blamed the ad-l ,
ministration's "policy ofi Trailer Weading
drift" for Gen. Alfred Gruen-i e^, u^ • Lt
ther's resignation as commander, rOf fieavyweightS
°'..'?'^J^ "."^ for the threat of| JACKSON, Tenn. OP)—Ruth a full scale war in the Mid-i Watkins. a 360-pounder. and die East. , . , ^^ ^ I W. D. Cowlan. 740 pounds.
At Pensacola. far in the north-| were married here in a trailer west comer of the state. Steven-i stage owned by a travelling son accu.sed the administration j show with which Cowlan per- of "sweeping the foreign policyj forms problems _ under the rugs'' and -We met in a phone both."
Horst Says that Is Real Reason for (iovernor's Opposition but Rift Has Developed in Ranks of Republicans
—An embarrassing rift split Senate Repub- !r*'1''°K''*'J"*^"'^'^I''' *''® ^'*''"i Cowia~n"sa[d.""".She"was trying te Chairman .Miles Horst yesterday over the 7- J "??rL™"""'0" ; to get out and I was trying
3 More Boys Flee Kis-Lyn
Number of Escapes
At Record High
Three more boys es- 'caped from Kis-Lyn In-
said a tornado funnel was -ighted five miles from Ada, >kla., and another near Calvin, Okla.
There were no reports avail¬ able immediately on injuries or damage.
(The Weather Bureau at Avoca Airport said it had re¬ ceived tornado reports from Michigan, one at Hudson and the other at Morencl. Both were moving northeast) At Holdcnville, Okla., where five persons were killed by a tWiiter six years a.go this month, the fire department sounded re¬ peated six-blast tornado wam- ngs on sirens.
Holdenville, northeast of Ada, was reported in the storm'a path.
The Oklahoma Highway Pa¬ trol said hail "as big as hen eggs" fell as the storm passed.
Fresh Winds Drop Fish in California UNITED PRESS
Freak winds dropped live fish on a town in Southern California yesterday.
Residents of Chula VLsta, Calif., found fish flopping in the streets after a twisting wind tore the covering off roofs and shattered windows.
Police said 10 live fish were picked up one mile from San Diego Bay after the wind passed over the community outside San Diego.
Scattered thunderstorms dampened other parts of Cali¬ fornia and Nevada with both rain and a mixture of rain and snow.
British Bolster Eastern Policy
»',' off in a corner and sulking licans and GOP State Chairman .Miles Horst yesterday «vr. i.ir c , „.t/i if I don't get everything I want, 'issue of retaining or dropping the Ohio stamp plan of collectine 'parlor INAIU .,,..,... Btnson replied. !Pennsylvania's 3"^ sales tax ^^ ^:„'^^fa"^" earned that if the
.Mr. ELsenhower has until! The stamp plan, under repeated fire from Senate Democrats ""'1*° ^i^*!" *'°^* T"' '^^^ '° April 24 to act on the farm and Gov. George M. Leader who termed it "ridiculous " will take 1??..u"k, u **i"',x'"^^* 1* bill, nr let it become law with- effect Julv I unless amended out of the law. i"' '"* North Atlantic Treaty
Horst. ipeaking as his party's state chairman, issued a sUte-i"''5^"'^"*'" Z'V '^^^¦^
ment in which he described* L."^'. ^'"^ '"^''^'l o" President
attempts to knock out the sUmp^^ I Eisenhower to express his per-
plan as a Democratic plot. jstamp plan and I do not see ^°"* ^'"'njjn^'^'' *" "^ee* ^'^
to get in.'
Out his signature. Press Secre¬ tary James C. Hagerty and Bcn.son l)oth expected the Pres¬ ident to act on the bill early thi.< w<^k and explain his action '" th; nation in a radio and itlpvi.sion appearance shortly 'ftiT he acts on the measure. The President. Benson and lther agriculture department of-
But two top Senate Repub-m^ny of them changing.
ithe heads of the Arab nations
lican spokesmen. Senate Major- "I personally do not'care one ?"<* iff^i'1??,'"^ ""v"!?.''J^.vl ity Leader Rowland B. Mahany.l^ay or another." Smith said,:'° "*" *"* prestige of his office Crawford, and Sen. Edward J. "t'ut 1 am going to support the ^° YI^^Ja^'^^H settlement Kessler. Lancaster, chairman of will of the caucus " "' 'he Middle East Cnsis.
Coming H-Tests Biggest Ever
WASHINGTON m — Rep. James T. Patterson (R-Conn) said yesterday the forthcoming
with Premier Gamal Abdel Nas¬ ser, Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi and other Egyptian lead¬ ers. He declined an invitation to tour the areas in the strip where some ^5 Arabs were killed by Israeli shelling last week.
Threat Intensified
The Israeli shelling and the j"*'T~. ^'^'V V i "/"• T."I resultant "reprisal" actions on dUStnal hchOOl last night, both sides intensified the threat bringing the month's total of war even while Hammars- „, . » ,•
kjold embarked on his peace."' ^"^h ^^^^P" '» ¦ '"B"'""' Imission to the Middle East. ;greater than that for all I Hammarskjold held a final; 1955. ' >,
liTfyi''F«'J^^'''lV°'ihrX';.r^intl"r^^ State Police at Hazleton andisources .said yesteFday.
with Fawzi at the Cairo Inter-1,,, , _^ j tv,_ -^ ^„u^.. i. j»..•-_.-( »-
Inationa! airport before boarding! Wyoming were alerted. LZ?l"f Y^'LiicLtfS^ 1 ^
!his^plane, ^ '| The three boys, age 16. 15 and h::l!j,l^f,t2/!^/.t„"t fri.^I'df.,.^-,:!
.<!aid
LONDON (ID—Prime Minister
Anthony Eden's government is
formulating a new policy to save
pf the peace in the Middle East and
.bolster waning British prestige
in the strategic region, informed
high Egyptian authority 13, were said to have fled from
uncommitted nations away from
Hammarskjold "did not
the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Mahany said the Ohioi^ kefauver said he believes;H-bonb test in the Pacific vvill fiials and White House advisors jboth said they opposed the plan stamp plan would prove both i'^''^'"*;'' ^'l^ "P the^ job as,be the most devastating explo- met for two hours and l.'i min-iand hoped to see it eliminated, "'•npractical and costly
fj.Q^ cnmmiLnder becau.se he wa.s sion ever known to mankind, mes in the morning, then Mr. I Smith Main Factor many points." ' "disappointed that in recent: Pattersons statement w a s
<Z:^l XK"cl^'c[ub;S!;^^'^„,S;; 'i:^^:;}^!^-, t^^l„^e'c^ls'^^r^|stren^hen J:'ATO ^and^set^, upiStraussJas^saida^^^^ BOf
for early next monthi
general in the April i primary, might hold the key.
Kessler said that ''the nianu-
,, , -,j ,. J , facturing industry also is op-
Kessler said he and several - ^ . j. " h-
I'sson
At the same time, most of messier saio ne ana several-o^.j _„-„ thmioh th^w umnin the ll Senate Republicans who:other Senate Republicans 'haveiP^f^; f„^-^"^*^^°"ffh '^^^^ voted for the me«sure were felt right along the Ohio stamp;"°^Jf^°°3t73^3 efforts to elim-
tmg a chance to lay their pUn was a mi.stake, and the only (.""X/taZoTan^^^ ments against a veto before,{^ay we accepted it was at thej^g^^'^Vead^r He accused ?he Kijenhower. The man insistence of the House ReP"b-?eSc,a[ic'tovernor*"or''^^^^^^ "" to seek the audience licans. (i„„ ,„ ,if,f ^^u^ effort"
jing an
to
among member nations " I Strauss said the biggest of the
Stevenson Levels Attack 'new explosions will be substan-
Stevenson, winding up fouritially less than the big H-bomb days of an intensive handshak-'set off in 1954. Strauss said the ing campaign, charged that the tests this time wili generally bcj}^", "home'
three years of the Eisenhower:Of the past series. lTnwn<ihin ..,.
administration brought the na-! Patterson said the nationP*'^"^T r Rumsev Monrde *''^.P''^'5"'''°"^""'",. ?• ..,
formed about theL°:',„•'H„n„t„?„^nn?; Ja^^dX P'"^^^^
-r„fi nnr Egypt's anti-Western bloc, and
find any difficultv in hfs^talks" '"* '^''f "T'.^^'ir "^T^''' 1^™,''^^^/^°*" "''"^'•*
with the Egyptian leaders. j**™ dressed in blue denim observers reported.
"Whether "the talks succeed-, overalls, shirts and jackets. j
ed or not," he added, "dependsi The 16-year-old was a resl-j £J4««wAt#'e f tmlf^ I on Hammarskjold's discussions jenj „, Pittston, the 15-year-old,"«'»^7 * ¦"*•**» \
with Israel and the results ne . »„„,. ._j n.« t->.. ^\a m ¦ ¦ ¦> ¦
brin^gs back to Cairo from Tel 'r^^Z!i>o^%'^.Siir'''fnVaded Eorly *
Headed for Home Parts | fhe traffic movement was
If the usual pattern of Kis-'reportedly "unusually heavy" Lyn escapes is followed, the last night at Harveys Lake youngsters are expected to headj where upwards of 5,000 region- toward familiar regions, accord-ial sportsmen are expected to ing to Hazleton troopers. greet the opening of the trout
This latest escape from Kis- i*«??°" *'-"^'^ "^ ^'^^y Lyn follows on the heels of an unofficial report from a mem¬ ber of the industrial school board who claimed that 'Hhings are out of the hand at the school."
Pistol Kills
STROUDSBURG. Pa. W) — David Everett, 14, was shot to death accidentally yesterday while examing a .22 caliber pis¬ tol with a young playmate at in nearby Stroud
Patterson tion three times to the brink of; should be informed
Hours before midnight, when the fishermen started to move into the resort, the lake high¬ way was jammed with motor vehicles occupied by sightseers out to get a preview of the fun. It was nothing, however, to The board member attributedjwhat is expected today, the su--^ ¦¦
*is Sen. Andrew J Schoeppel Smith, campaigning in West-' ^ "" "'" stamo olan
'Kar,.s V chairman of the GOP em Pennsylvania, said in Pitts-|''".?j|^g*'"^o^^r„'^^"'P„Pj*"oemo
S<;nato.-ial Campaign Committee, burgh that he doubted the GOPi^^^jj^ ^^ leaders know that! "We have sustained' an un-ision was withheld from the pub
»ho IS directing the Republican Caucus would change its mind, i^^^^ ^^^ qj^.^ ^^ ,^ oflprecedented attack of huckster-,lie "for many months."
war. brought farmers to the;power of the new tests at .anjj^^g S^SrafcitK last month
'.brink of bankruptcy and wipediearly date. He said informationLl,;"*'bu|,erentlring"7hr''boy's ^''^^JTf °/ '^'^arges which in- -out manv small busines.smen about the first H-bomb explo-|^t^,fb""et entering ine o^^^^^^ ^ ,„re ,„ maintain prop
because of chest and killing him instantly-i^r discioline among youngsters;
Th undershowers Possible Here
tl '" '¦•^'»'" *=*'"*'¦"' "' '•'^'.u ' ''""'l '/I„*!^'M^nv,?I collection in the sales tax law. ing, melodrama and
Sfnatp
the caucus
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[jhoulishness Just Tun*
35 High School Pupils Face Questjon/ng for Grave-Robbing
1 'MA, Ohio (IPI—Police said ymcrday that about ^5 high school pupils spent several afi- ^rnoon.s breaking into a mau¬ soleum in Woodlawn Ceme- «fy near Ada in Hardin toimtv.
Authorities got their first "P on the grave robbings from J waitress in a drive-in res¬ taurant who said she was Shocked when one of the girls
a:. , - ""Cll une OI me giris
displayed a hand skeleton she '^l taken from the grave.
abou '?^T" ^"' Cox said rout 3,5 boys and girls would
^ questioned about their trips Y the cemeterv J^st 'Fun- ^
„u'^"f''orities said the pupils -!;''!'.'ve heen questioned de-
C^n^ "''^"" t^PS as "fun " .^f'fw said that the
Ju^'*f-", "earned the man-
i.Tom!"?'"^'^* had been broken
; TV™^ ago.
« groif^ /7^ ^8°' Po'ice said. 1'-ove?°(J"''Rbschoolgiris
* *nall holt u ona of
the crypts. One of the giris took a piece of wood and be¬ gan digging in the hole. With¬ in minutes, the girls said, one girl pulled out a skeletonized hand. Buried .10 Years
Authorities said cemetery officials told them the hand was that of a woman buried about 30 years ago.
Sheriff Clarence Brown of Hardin County said he had seen several carloads of voungsters in the area in re¬ cent days and had told them to stay away.
The cemetery board of trus¬ tees has indicated it would not file charges. Repairs at the cemetery have been au¬ thorized.
Juvenile Court Judge Paul J. Rockev said that the young¬ sters apparently had been making trips to the cemetery for about two weeks. He .said he felt none of the voungsters "understood or knew thc grav¬ ity of th« •itiukUoo."
misrepre-
favored the Ohio ^^^y~;^'{{{ have "no""rnore"chance I sentation' that insults the "in-i Rraphers will cover the forth of repealing the sales tax thanitelligence." he said. "The bigjcornin|; tests
:S^^^ ITl^nj'I^Gunman'Robber
the Democrats had in Ohio,"
Horst said.
Will Block Repeal
"The issue is very simple," Horst said. "With the stamp plan, the Governor won't be able to make the sales tax a political football. Without it in the law, he can revive the sales tax versus wage tax battle in
get bigger and the small get! ."'t '» no longer a secret that f(|//5 CofC MOfI
smaller or vanish altogether,m'nute and harmless particles This is the most alarming de-1p^ "dioactive fall-out are still
velopment scene.
on the American
landing on all parts of the earth as a result of an explo¬ sion that occurred several years ago," Patterson said. ¦'TTius there is much to be from the forthcoming
Leave for Britain
MOSCOW OFI — Soviet Pre- learned mier Nikolai Bulganin and Com-jtest and 1 feel that the public munist Party Secretary Nikita'should be informed of any dan- the next session of the Legis-js. Kruschchev left yesterday on gerous ramifications that may lature," Horst said. jtheir mission to Britain. j result from these future detona-
Horst said "the people want The Rusian leaders waved]tions. to know what taxes they are! farewell to delegations ofi "This is not child's play," Pat-
The U. S. Weather Bureau at Avoca last night predicted showers and scattered thun¬ derstorms for this region to¬ day. Fresh to strong winds
and staff members.
The Kis-Lyn board offered the post to Harold Strong. Bingham-: ton. N. Y., at a meeting on Mon-:
day Strong took the offer under! also are'expected' The da/a study. j high will be aboflt 60.
Meanwhile. Keil was asked tO; Rather cloudy and cooler remain as superintendent until: weather, with showers. Is an- May 1. I ticipated Monday.
PHILADELPHIA OP)—A youth¬ ful gunman shot a South Phila¬ delphia tavern owner to death yesterday in a holdup and es¬ caped with between $150 and $200. |„ . ^ ,,
Albert Foglietta, 56, was SClCntlStS KepOrt struck in the neck, che.st and I- ^^ ^^ t t m^ ^^ .i mm m» i ¦
stomach by three bullets as hei L|/||(| COflCer COUfCf 06 Cilt 75% pleaded with the killer "don't' •"""M ^M"*»«f» wwMfw w^ \*U\ I^ l\I
shoot me again." i
tion and entrained for the Bal tic port of Kalingrad where they will board the speedy Soviet naval cruiser Orjoni- kidze.
paying to the state—and pre¬ paid tax receipts given under the Ohio stamp plan will giVe them the information."
Horst said the plan should not cost more than $5,000,000 to administer this biennium.
Democratic State Sen. John H. Dent, a prime foe of the Ohio glan, claimed in a state¬ ment of his own the tax would cost $23,000,000 to collect.
Sen. Kessler, advised of ^ Amusement
Horst's position on the stamp|Around the Town..Three
plan, said he thought the state;Better Engli.sh Two
chairman was "wrong." HeIcjty Hall News ....Five
said he could not understandiciassified Six'
the disparity in views since hejcounty News Five
had di-scussed the issue withIf-j-osj^ord Puzzle ..Two
'"SoJi'Tena^e and House re-K- Pearson Three
turn tomorrow at 1 P. M. for Editorial Three
tofcftn r»sffiftn^ 'Frank Tripp Thre*
Soviet and Western diplomatic j terson said. "We are expen- officials at the Belorussian sta-1 menting with a force that is
capable of instantly destroying a segment of the earth as large as the state of Connecticut, and I feel the public should know the truth about this force."
INSIDE THE INDEPENDENT
Section Page' Section Page
.Four 10-lljHow Can I? ? ? ....Four 4
7 Look and Leam ....One H
8 Obituary .....One
4 Politics Three
1-6 Radio Five
5 Robert C. Ruark ...Three
9 State Capitol Five
1 State News Five
"Sports Three
CiTV Five
7iW<»Mm'i S«<4ion ..Four
8 6
67 7 2 3
1-5
Valley Scenes ^^^
Middle-aged man leaving South Washington St. an¬ tique shop with Civil War aword and scabbard under his arm and telling a companion "I've wanted one of these since I jww a kid,"
PlninchtJiesman having lunch in Public Square res- tatirnnt and virji tolerantly listening to cuntotaer on next stool ej-poand on how much he hates cops.
If Cieiareiie Smoking Siopped
Sports Editor forced to
drive home—a iO-mile trip—
on his lunch period because
ke never gut around to teach-
6-7; ing hia wife how to build f,
I-IOJ twruMfk firs.
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. (W Scientists who experiment- with tars from burning to¬ bacco said yesterday that lung cancer could be reduced bv 75% if people did not smoke cigarettes.
But a spokesman for the to¬ bacco industry said their evi¬ dence was inconclusive.
The scientists served on a panel which discussed a possi¬ ble tie-up between heavy smoking and cancer of the lungs. They took nart in the 47th annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Dr. Ernest Wynder of the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York described work there and at Toronto Universi¬ ty te which mic* suffered
from skin cancer after being treated with tobacco tar con¬ centrates. His experimental evidence was corroborated by Dr. William Smith of New York University, who said skin cancers grew after ciga¬ rette tar concentrates wera painted directly on the ani¬ mals.
Smith also reported prog¬ ress in attempts at develop¬ ing short cuts in evaluating the cancer causing properties of cigarette smoke tar.
Syndor. Smith and Dr. Rob¬ ert r. Mellors of Sloan-Ket¬ tering said at a news con¬ ference following the pane! discussion that thev were in "general agreement'' with the theory that there would b« 75% less lung cancer it im>
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SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
Sh
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Today'. High 52 to 60 Monday—Cloudy, Cooler
50TH YEAR - NO. 25 - 84 PAGES
•jrrcc:?!- wilkes-barre, pa., sunday, april is, 1956
CNITEn PRESS
price 15 CENTS
TORNADOES THREATEN 4 STATES
GOP Near PanicmMi Over Probable ||s Stolen Farm Bill Veto
Farm Belt Congressmen Fear i Reverses Down to l^ocal Level; Benson Will Stay if Ike Signs
At Wedding
McCloskeys Lose Valuable Gems In Monaco Hotel; Party Goes On
MONTE CARLO (ID —
I AUGUSTA, Ga. (IP)—Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson said yesterday after a talk with President Eisenhower that he considers the farm bill "unac-
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the farm bill, an4 pointed out, that the President knows his views.
Benson said later that if the President did sign the bill his departnient would do the best to administer it as long as the! President desired. Then hei a«l fauver blamed the ad-l ,
ministration's "policy ofi Trailer Weading
drift" for Gen. Alfred Gruen-i e^, u^ • Lt
ther's resignation as commander, rOf fieavyweightS
°'..'?'^J^ "."^ for the threat of| JACKSON, Tenn. OP)—Ruth a full scale war in the Mid-i Watkins. a 360-pounder. and die East. , . , ^^ ^ I W. D. Cowlan. 740 pounds.
At Pensacola. far in the north-| were married here in a trailer west comer of the state. Steven-i stage owned by a travelling son accu.sed the administration j show with which Cowlan per- of "sweeping the foreign policyj forms problems _ under the rugs'' and -We met in a phone both."
Horst Says that Is Real Reason for (iovernor's Opposition but Rift Has Developed in Ranks of Republicans
—An embarrassing rift split Senate Repub- !r*'1''°K''*'J"*^"'^'^I''' *''® ^'*''"i Cowia~n"sa[d.""".She"was trying te Chairman .Miles Horst yesterday over the 7- J "??rL™"""'0" ; to get out and I was trying
3 More Boys Flee Kis-Lyn
Number of Escapes
At Record High
Three more boys es- 'caped from Kis-Lyn In-
said a tornado funnel was -ighted five miles from Ada, >kla., and another near Calvin, Okla.
There were no reports avail¬ able immediately on injuries or damage.
(The Weather Bureau at Avoca Airport said it had re¬ ceived tornado reports from Michigan, one at Hudson and the other at Morencl. Both were moving northeast) At Holdcnville, Okla., where five persons were killed by a tWiiter six years a.go this month, the fire department sounded re¬ peated six-blast tornado wam- ngs on sirens.
Holdenville, northeast of Ada, was reported in the storm'a path.
The Oklahoma Highway Pa¬ trol said hail "as big as hen eggs" fell as the storm passed.
Fresh Winds Drop Fish in California UNITED PRESS
Freak winds dropped live fish on a town in Southern California yesterday.
Residents of Chula VLsta, Calif., found fish flopping in the streets after a twisting wind tore the covering off roofs and shattered windows.
Police said 10 live fish were picked up one mile from San Diego Bay after the wind passed over the community outside San Diego.
Scattered thunderstorms dampened other parts of Cali¬ fornia and Nevada with both rain and a mixture of rain and snow.
British Bolster Eastern Policy
»',' off in a corner and sulking licans and GOP State Chairman .Miles Horst yesterday «vr. i.ir c , „.t/i if I don't get everything I want, 'issue of retaining or dropping the Ohio stamp plan of collectine 'parlor INAIU .,,..,... Btnson replied. !Pennsylvania's 3"^ sales tax ^^ ^:„'^^fa"^" earned that if the
.Mr. ELsenhower has until! The stamp plan, under repeated fire from Senate Democrats ""'1*° ^i^*!" *'°^* T"' '^^^ '° April 24 to act on the farm and Gov. George M. Leader who termed it "ridiculous " will take 1??..u"k, u **i"',x'"^^* 1* bill, nr let it become law with- effect Julv I unless amended out of the law. i"' '"* North Atlantic Treaty
Horst. ipeaking as his party's state chairman, issued a sUte-i"''5^"'^"*'" Z'V '^^^¦^
ment in which he described* L."^'. ^'"^ '"^''^'l o" President
attempts to knock out the sUmp^^ I Eisenhower to express his per-
plan as a Democratic plot. jstamp plan and I do not see ^°"* ^'"'njjn^'^'' *" "^ee* ^'^
to get in.'
Out his signature. Press Secre¬ tary James C. Hagerty and Bcn.son l)oth expected the Pres¬ ident to act on the bill early thi.< w,
liTfyi''F«'J^^'''lV°'ihrX';.r^intl"r^^ State Police at Hazleton andisources .said yesteFday.
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Inationa! airport before boarding! Wyoming were alerted. LZ?l"f Y^'LiicLtfS^ 1 ^
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brin^gs back to Cairo from Tel 'r^^Z!i>o^%'^.Siir'''fnVaded Eorly *
Headed for Home Parts | fhe traffic movement was
If the usual pattern of Kis-'reportedly "unusually heavy" Lyn escapes is followed, the last night at Harveys Lake youngsters are expected to headj where upwards of 5,000 region- toward familiar regions, accord-ial sportsmen are expected to ing to Hazleton troopers. greet the opening of the trout
This latest escape from Kis- i*«??°" *'-"^'^ "^ ^'^^y Lyn follows on the heels of an unofficial report from a mem¬ ber of the industrial school board who claimed that 'Hhings are out of the hand at the school."
Pistol Kills
STROUDSBURG. Pa. W) — David Everett, 14, was shot to death accidentally yesterday while examing a .22 caliber pis¬ tol with a young playmate at in nearby Stroud
Patterson tion three times to the brink of; should be informed
Hours before midnight, when the fishermen started to move into the resort, the lake high¬ way was jammed with motor vehicles occupied by sightseers out to get a preview of the fun. It was nothing, however, to The board member attributedjwhat is expected today, the su--^ ¦¦
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'Kar,.s V chairman of the GOP em Pennsylvania, said in Pitts-|''".?j|^g*'"^o^^r„'^^"'P„Pj*"oemo
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